Classic Hilton's

The 2016-2017 Academic Year officially commenced on July 1st, 2016.  I am now the proud (and terrified!) mother teacher of a 5th grader, kindergartner, and pre-k-er.   We planned to start school on Monday July 11th, but an unexpected tour around Lancaster county turned out to be very educational, so we counted it as a field trip and Monday became day 2 of our school year.  We are now in our second week of our summer term, and things are going swimmingly.   We are keeping a light, flexible schedule, leaving plenty of time for impromptu play dates and lots of time outside. We start with "Morning" time, which usually takes place after lunch when it's too hot to be outside.  We read aloud (we finished Roverandom ,and a really bad adaptation of  Peter Pan , and we are currently working through  Cricket in Times Square ) and color for about 10-15 minutes.  Then Brooklyn works on her math while Grayson and I do Calendar time. Madi sort of flits around, half participating, ha

So do not worry, saying 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For the pagans run after all these things and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.  But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.  Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.  Each day has enough trouble of its own. ~Matthew 6:31-34 (NIV) I like to make plans.  Well, sort of.  I like thinking long term.  My favorite part of homeschooling is taking time at the beginning of the academic year and looking at what I call the Bird's Eye View. Officially our philosophy is to treat each year individually and make decisions based on what is best for that child at that time, but I'd be lying if I didn't say that I have a pretty good idea about what we'll be doing for the next thirteen educational years.  The "sort of" part of my planning abilities come